On the occasion of the 25th Festival of the Streetpainters Manfred Stader and Edgar Mueller painted the “falling angels” of Tiepolo on behalf of the city of Geldern. The 17.5 sq.m. large picture was painted within three days and became the event of the competition in Geldern.

"Falling angels"

[Tiepolo 1752, oil on canvas, 700 x 250]

This painting can be visited in the “Michaelsaltar” of the residence of Wuerzburg. The archangel Michael is painted as a winner over the plunging Lucifer and the falling angels. A dynamic moving marks this large sized side altarpiece, which Giovanni Battista Tiepolo finished in 1752. In the painting “falling angels” the movement dominates from above downward. The reception of the Virgin Mary to heaven in the opposite board picture is marked by an equal dramatic movement from down upward. Looking closer, both paintings show a double movement. In the picture of the angels falling down from above we also find elements showing downwards from above. They are most intensively concentrated in the illuminated figure of the archangel Michael: together with his powerful wings his stretched left hand points upwards. It is like the personification of his name’s message: "Michael: who is like God!"

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